Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Final Shot. Weyer now had only to substantiate Violet's story with physical proof. Into the case came Ballistics Expert Stanley MacDonald, Multnomah County detective chief in Portland, Ore. MacDonald examined fabric shreds, wall sections, photographs, figured the directions of the four shots, compared firings from the shotgun. Two months later he presented his findings: Marion Sill had fired three times at Violet, then reloaded the gun; the fourth shot, which entered Sill's neck from a perpendicular angle, was the one that splattered his flesh on the ceiling, the one that Violet triggered from the floor. Furthermore...
While some businessmen deride such activities as an empty gesture to public relations, the most eloquent proof of the conservative's genuine concern for human values is often to be found in unpublicized programs within his own company. General Electric, for example, budgets up to $40 million a year for education within the company, finds that one in eight employees takes advantage of its courses. Instead of merely firing the older employee or cutting him off with a watch, business is pouring $4 billion a year into retirement programs. With the aid of University of Chicago consultants, Bell & Howell...
...humility from the very date on which these historic foundations were raised up to the sight of mankind. Like manna from heaven, endowments have rained down upon us, giving us to know that our thoughts are upright and our actions upward. Yea, is the wonderworking of providence not proof enough of the fruitfulness of our seed...
...Look at me," said the U.S. Representative-elect in a high-pitched, emotional voice. "I am a living proof of America's democracy." Dalip Singh Saund had good cause for his excitement: a native of India, Democrat Saund had just been elected to the House from California's longtime-Republican 29th District in the lush Imperial Valley-where Asians have not always been happily tolerated...
This week, while Jackie was back at the Odium ranch, Dalip Singh Saund was happily planning to keep a heartfelt campaign promise: to go to India to show himself as a living proof of America's democracy...